found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed February 18, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Jefferson, (“Blind”) Lemon; blues musician / singer, guitarist, jazz musician; born July 1897 near Wortham, Texas, United States; lost his sight at least by the time he was a teenager; moved to Dallas and began performing full-time in the Deep Ellum neighborhood (1910s); Paramount invited him to Chicago, Illinois and he began to record his extensive repertoire of original and folk material (1925-1926); died December 1929 possibly, Chicago, Illinois, United States)